Arts & Sciences Events

Andrews Gallery and the Department of Art & Art History presents: Collective: the Studio Art Majors Exhibition May 1 - 12, 2013 All are welcome to attend the reception: Fri, May 3 from 6 - 8pm at Andrews Gallery.

Dr. Giovanni Vignale,University of Missouri, Title of Talk: Coulomb drag and spin Coulomb drag: from electrons to atoms

Andrews Gallery and the Department of Art & Art History presents: Collective: the Studio Art Majors Exhibition All are welcome to attend the reception: Fri, May 3 from 6 - 8pm at Andrews Gallery.

The final goal of theoretical physics is not the explanation of observed facts, but the weaving of those facts into a convincing and memorable narrative. This talk will expose some of the basic tools used: limits, mapping, and "effective theories."

Monday, May 6th 2013- Wednesday, May 8th 2013

Speaker: Andrew Spray (University of Melbourne) Title: "Constraining Light Supersymmetric Hidden Sectors"

Dylan Judd Albrecht, Physics Ph.D. Defense Title: Applications of Holographic Dualities Open to the public

Robert Dickerson, Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, University of Virginia, presents the system RESonate and shows how it can mitigate the effects of reverberation in real home or office environments for different speech classification applications.

Ceremony for ROTC Cadets of the College of William & Mary receiving the commissions as Second Lieutenants in the United States Army.

Graduating philosophy majors and their families are welcome to celebrate in an intimate departmental ceremony.

The Chemistry Department graduation ceremony takes place at 2:30 pm in Millington Auditorium 150 with a reception following in the Integrated Science Center 1st floor lobby.

Come see our seniors off as their receive their diplomas! Refreshments provided.

Presentation of diplomas for all Biology Majors

Degree Conferral

Zhifeng Shi, Physics Ph.D. Defense, Title: Multi-Meson Systems from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Open to the public.

Benjamin Carl Rislow, Physics Ph.D. Defense, Title: Low Energy Tests of the Standard Model Open to the public.

Speaker: Elizabeth Goldschmidt, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Title of talk: "What photons can tell us about their origins"

WMGALA presents, on behalf of the W&M Boswell Initiative, an evening with Tom Heacox, W&M Professor of English.

Albert Einstein predicted gravitational waves, but they have not yet been observed. Prof. Mikhailov will discuss possible ways to detect gravitational waves, in particular the Laser Interferometry Gravitational Wave Observatory.

Offices Closed

Come together with all the other WMSURE students conducting research in Williamsburg this summer for a social event with Prof. Charity Hudley and Prof. Dickter with a focus on blogging!

Elementary and intermediate level Chinese classes will be offered in the summer of 2013! Registration is already started.

Integration at William & Mary was not achieved simply with the acceptance of the first students of color; instead it has been a decades-long process. A new exhibit at Swem Library traces the admission of some of the first W&M African American students.